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I have a work sheet that I would like to use a look up function but be able
to look up one cell and pull it from another cell. Can this be done? |
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![]() I assume you have tried vlookup and found that looking up the value from the first column is inadequate. There is another lookup function which you can try, and that is the DGET function. DGET(database,field,criteria) Database is the range of cells that makes up the list or database. A database is a list of related data in which rows of related information are records, and columns of data are fields. The first row of the list contains labels for each column. Field indicates which column is used in the function. Enter the column label enclosed between double quotation marks, such as "Age" or "Yield," or a number (without quotation marks) that represents the position of the column within the list: 1 for the first column, 2 for the second column, and so on. Criteria is the range of cells that contains the conditions that you specify. You can use any range for the criteria argument, as long as it includes at least one column label and at least one cell below the column label in which you specify a condition for the column. So you define the database range to lookup, the field which you want to lookup, and the criteria which you can specify (eg. header on top, lookup value below). you can customise the value you want to lookup, refer to help for more options. -- KellTainer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KellTainer's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=34322 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=549257 |
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